ShepHyken
JULY 26, 2022
Human-Centered AI. Using AI to Enable and Empower Customer Service Agents. Shep Hyken interviews Deon Nicholas, CEO and Co-Founder of Forethought , a company that builds human-centered AI to transform the customer service experience. He shares how companies can use AI and technology to help customer support agents and customers find the best resolution.
Beyond Philosophy
JULY 23, 2022
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CCNG
JULY 27, 2022
There is a great deal of debate about what metrics call centers should measure now, especially with COVID-19 and the accompanying shift to work-at-home agents, staffing shortages, and persistent supply chain issues straining customers’ patience. Despite changes in technology, new contact channels, and omnichannel communication, some call centers are still "partying like it's 1998," using outdated metrics and operating as a cost center.
Contact Center Pipeline
JULY 27, 2022
If you Google prison-staffed call centers, the coverage isn’t good and rightly so. Companies have misused prison labor in the contact center for little more than their own greed. As a result, there is a black cloud that hangs over such contact centers today. The sheer mention of it is automatically associated with American slavery […].
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Step-by-step instructions on how to use AI for growth in your contact center Learn how AI can transform your contact center operations. In this ebook, dig into the different AI technologies, then see how each can help automate tasks, streamline service, and turn your contact center from a cost center to a profit house. Plus, we’ll give you practical tips on choosing the right AI tools, getting them up and running, and measuring their impact.
ShepHyken
JULY 29, 2022
This week we feature an article by Jason Grills, Customer Support Expert at ProProfs , a company that provides software that empowers organizations to deliver happiness to their customers and employees. He shares the best practices for improvement can make a huge difference to your first call resolution rate. . You don’t want to wait around for your queries to be resolved.
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Callminer
JULY 25, 2022
Read this post to learn tips and best practices for adopting an innovative sales methodology.
TechSee
JULY 28, 2022
The evolution of chatbots in customer service has generated much fanfare over the years. Chatbots promise a better customer experience by reducing wait times, delivering the digital experiences customers want, and providing 24/7 service on-demand. Furthermore, chatbots are cost savers, with the cost of a self-service interaction at just $0.10 compared to about $8 per live contact. .
ShepHyken
JULY 27, 2022
One of my favorite sayings is, “What’s happening inside an organization is felt on the outside by the customer.” You can’t expect to consistently deliver a great customer experience if you aren’t creating a great employee experience. So, let’s examine the employee experience to find out what makes employees happy with their jobs. . Some companies conduct exit interviews for employees who have chosen to move on.
Totango
JULY 29, 2022
Did you know that 70% of revenue in a subscription-based business comes from existing customer renewals and upsells? Renewals and upsells are effective ways to expand customer revenue for any recurring revenue business model but they are especially important during periods of economic uncertainty when new acquisition growth slows down or stops altogether. .
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Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.
AWS Machine Learning
JULY 29, 2022
Customer satisfaction is a potent metric that directly influences the profitability of an organization. With rapid technological advances in the past decade or so, it’s even more important to elevate customer focus in the following ways: Making your organization accessible to your customers across multiple modalities, including voice, text, social media, and more.
CSM Magazine
JULY 28, 2022
For UMC, a century-old construction firm known for taking on some of the most complex, ambitious, and challenging projects in the business, from Seattle’s Space Needle to Amazon’s Spheres, there’s no settling for “good enough.”. That standard applies not only to the quality, aesthetics, and safety of the built environments UMC creates, but also to the systems its people use to manage and grow the business.
Kayako
JULY 28, 2022
Today’s customers increasingly expect personalized experiences from brands, so it is tempting to think that if your customer were having a problem, their first choice would be to get on a live call with customer service. When looking at actual customer behavior, the opposite is true. According to a Forrester report , 72% of US online consumers prefer to use self-help tools online to get answers to their questions rather than contact the company’s help desk via telephone or email.
Totango
JULY 26, 2022
Protecting and growing your current customer base should be your top priority right now, but how do you do that when your marketing and sales budgets have been slashed and hiring has stopped? During periods of economic uncertainty, you need to do more with less. This means providing exceptional customer experiences and solutions become top priority, all the while continuing to find ways to increase the value you’re providing, as well.
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CX leaders are in a gold rush for AI, lured by the promise of cost savings and a revolution in service delivery. But simply deploying AI in your contact center isn't a magic bullet. There are hidden dangers that can derail your AI dreams. Recent incidents, such as the missteps of an AI chatbot deployed by Air Canada, have underscored the complexities and risks involved in leveraging AI in customer-facing roles.
ChurnZero
JULY 29, 2022
This article was originally published on Forbes.com. Acquiring new customers is good. But keeping the customers you have is better. With the rise of the SaaS model, retention has dethroned acquisition as the primary means to achieve long-term growth and high valuation. Incremental improvements lead to big gains. In fact, according to one source, increasing your customer retention by just 5% can increase your revenue by up to 95%.
Quality Contact Solutions
JULY 26, 2022
After writing over one thousand call center scripts, we know that there isn’t a single stand-alone ingredient we’d consider the ‘secret sauce’ for creating the perfect script. So instead, we’ve found that the sum of all the parts makes the most compelling scripts. The S Word The word ‘script’ is nuanced and has a perceived negative stigma, but why?
Spearline
JULY 28, 2022
Are you running your business phone system in the cloud? The reliance on cloud-based team collaboration software has grown rapidly with many enterprises using these applications to keep dispersed teams connected. But how do you measure the audio quality on these connections? With Spearline’s Cloud PBX Voice Quality Test , you can find out. The Cloud PBX Voice Quality Test will replicate your call flow to or from your Cloud PBX provider.
Nicereply
JULY 25, 2022
Are you considering a career as a customer service representative? There is no better time than now! Believe it or not, the summer season is a great time for finding a new job. Companies aren’t so busy and you have a lot of time to take some rest and prepare for an interview. Almost 50% of American employees are considering a change of job and remote work is getting more attractive than ever before.
Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions
Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!
Momentum Telecom
JULY 26, 2022
Read through our checklist to see if your cloud service providers are meeting your needs or coming up short: Download Checklist. The post (Checklist) Is Your Business Thriving With Your Existing Cloud Services? appeared first on Momentum Telecom.
VirtualPBX
JULY 28, 2022
If you’re looking for a new phone number, you may want to consider getting one with the area code of your business location. Local phone numbers are more credible and let people know your company’s location. But what if you’re using your personal line for work? In that case, local numbers offer even more benefits. Here’s how small businesses can get a local phone number: Why You Should Get A Local Phone Number.
ConvergeOne
JULY 28, 2022
Rinchem is a chemical management solutions provider with plans to grow by 14-19 sites over the next few years. One of its biggest challenges is gaining the stability needed so that it can provide a reliable network and ensure the availability of all services. With ConvergeOne’s guidance, Rinchem has taken a methodical approach to cloud migration that has allowed it to get to the next generation of technology while having business continuity in place at all times.
Spearline
JULY 28, 2022
Are you running your business phone system in the cloud? The reliance on cloud-based team collaboration software has grown rapidly with many enterprises using these applications to keep dispersed teams connected. But how do you measure the audio quality on these connections? With Spearline’s MS Teams Voice Quality Test , you can find out. The MS Teams Voice Quality Test will replicate your call flow to or from your Cloud PBX provider.
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Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.
Quadient
JULY 25, 2022
Aspire Leaderboard Transforms its Grids for an Evolving CCM Market. Marissa Feigen. Tue, 07/26/2022 - 02:35. Every year, the Quadient team, along with our customers, partners, and future customers, eagerly anticipate the updated Aspire Leaderboard. This year’s Leaderboard reflects several major shifts in the industry, with three critical updates that make it easier to plan customer communication transformation projects.
AWS Machine Learning
JULY 26, 2022
Logistics and transportation companies track ETA (estimated time of arrival), which is a key metric for their business. Their downstream supply chain activities are planned based on this metric. However, delays often occur, and the ETA might differ from the product’s or shipment’s actual time of arrival (ATA), for instance due to shipping distance or carrier-related or weather-related issues.
Russel Lolacher
JULY 26, 2022
In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with workplace violence prevention advisor and consultant Felix Nater on the impacts of violence and non-violent behaviour in the workplace, its impact on culture and steps to avoid it. A few reasons he is awesome – he is the President and Owner of Nater Associates, Ltd. a human resource security management consulting practice, and has more than three decades of federal law enforcement, investigative, program management and security ex
Quiq
JULY 28, 2022
We hate to break it to you, but the customer experience is getting worse. Okay, maybe you already knew that. With staffing shortages, supply chain disasters, inflation, and a looming recession, there’s a lot going on. And customer service seems to be bearing the brunt of it. Forrester’s Consumer Index Ratings showed a big drop in the quality of customer experiences.
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Customers expect to be able to interact with your organization whenever and however they want. They also expect your agents to have insights into their journeys so that they don’t have to repeat themselves as they move through various channels. And, if they’re not able to, they just might find one of your competitors who will offer the flexibility they are looking for.
Fonolo
JULY 28, 2022
Over the past couple of years, inclusivity in hiring has taken center stage in HR departments across every industry; and that includes inclusive hiring practices for call centers. More than ever, employers are recognizing how important it is to have an individual or a hiring team that’s dedicated to maintaining high Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) standards.
AWS Machine Learning
JULY 29, 2022
There have been many recent advancements in the NLP domain. Pre-trained models and fully managed NLP services have democratised access and adoption of NLP. Amazon Comprehend is a fully managed service that can perform NLP tasks like custom entity recognition, topic modelling, sentiment analysis and more to extract insights from data without the need of any prior ML experience.
CSM Magazine
JULY 28, 2022
According to Redfin, the typical U.S. asking rent passed $2,000 for the first time in May, and in Manhattan rents are skyrocketing to as much as $5,000 a month as COVID-era concessions go by the wayside. Unexpected price tags overnight that just keep increasing keep rent a mainstream conversation, but what do renters think about the highest rent prices in recent years?
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